Cracked Archive - Weird World
6 Lost Works Of Genius (Found In The Dumbest Place Possible)
Sometimes the hoarders are right, and some random piece of garbage that's currently festering in your attic may turn out to be worth a fortune.
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- By Adam Wears, Evan V. Symon , Ivan Farkas, M. Peter Storino
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385 5 Basic Truths Everyone Agrees On (Are Shockingly New Ideas)
Apparently some inventions we assumed are recent go back thousands of years.
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- By Michael Hossey
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5 Modern Things Created For Totally Different Purposes
It turns out that when you trace some of the things we use every day back to their origins, you find that, while necessity may be the mother of invention, sometimes her baby daddy is serendipity.
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- By Dennis Fulton
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9 Insane Loopholes You Won't Believe Are Legal
Every once in a while, someone finds a loophole wide enough drive a monster truck full of questionable intentions straight through.
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- By Mark Hill
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5 Catastrophes Caused By Idiots Trying To Prevent Them
We apparently decided that between terror attacks, school shootings, and street crime, we'd better just bury the needle on the security side.
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- By Matt Farmer
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7 Horrifying Things Snuck Into Famous Children's Cartoons
When you look at your favorite cartoons through the cynical eye of a grown-up, you see some pretty disturbing shit the writers threw in there.
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- By Raoni Lacerda, Michael Kane, Jorden Weir, Ed Stevens, Tara Marie
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8 Real Craigslist Ads That Were Clearly Written By Murderers
Sometimes the traps set by serial killers via Craigslist posts are so hilariously transparent, they would actually qualify as brilliant comedy routines if they weren't 100 percent serious.
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- By Jim Avery
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6 Tiny Things That Indicate You've Got Huge Medical Problems
We don't intend for this article to feed anyone's paranoia; we just want to point out that our bodies are confusing boondoggles of organs, designed by a madman.
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- By Ivan Farkas
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7 Real Humans Who Survived Shockingly Violent Deaths
These people don't ever face mortality, because they're too busy giving it a wedgie and kicking its feet while it walks so it trips all over the place.
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- By Zachary Frey
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5 Iconic Symbols Designed To Have The Exact Opposite Meaning
Some of the most ubiquitous symbols in the world were originally created to represent the exact opposite of what they mean today.
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- By Rachel P.
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The 7 Creepiest Uses Of Technology In Human History
The beauty of a human face collection is in the eye of the beholder.
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- By Teddem Yee
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5 B.S. Rumors That Created The Modern World
Just look at this ridiculous bullshit that altered the course of history.
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- By Cedric Voets
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9 Terrifying Old Movies That Put Modern Horror To Shame
Early cinema could get bizarrely hardcore and hardcorely bizarre, even by today's standards.
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- By Michael Daye
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5 Nightmares You Don't Know Until You're Diabetic
We talked to someone with one variety of diabetes to learn about the parts of the experience you never hear about.
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- By Ryan Menezes, Zachary Ullman
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6 Important Problems That Famous Movies Forgot To Solve
Plenty of famous movies have unresolved plot points that will inevitably come back to bite the protagonist in the ass, either because the writers forgot about them or because they thought no one would notice.
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- By Robin Warder
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